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AGATHANGELUS.-Head of Sextus Pompeius. Sard. Stosch. Spelt

AгAOANTEAOY, but the gem is suspected.

AGATHEMERUS.-Head of Socrates.

Sard. Blacas Coll.

AGATHON. Bacchus. Beryl. Algernon Percy.

AGATHOPUS.-Head of Sextus Pompeius. Beryl. Florence.

Elephant's Head. Stosch.

Two hands joined. Stosch. Sard.

ALBIUS.-Head of Caligula. Sard. Barbarini.

ALEXA. Bull. Sard. Berlin.

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ALEXA, QUINTUS.-Cameo fragment. Legs of a warrior. Florence. N.B. All these are supposed to be works of Alessandro Cesati il Greco.

ALEXANDER.-Cameo. Cupid taming a lion. On one side Venus, on the other a Bacchante. Morpeth.

Cameo. Head of Drusus. Also assigned to Alessandro Cesati. ALLION (AAAION and AAAYON).-Head of Apollo laureated. Sard. Florence.

Cameo. Head of Apollo. Raspe.

Bacchante seated on the lap of a faun sacrificing to Priapus,

a satyr plays the flute: Calcedony. Besborough.

Unknown Roman bust. Raspe.

Muse. Sard. Strozzi.

Some assert this name to be the signature of Gio. Mar.

da Pescia.

Bull butting. Onyx. Thoms.

Head of Ulysses, front-face. Sard. Hamilton.

Venus Marina holding a sea-horse.

Nessus and Deianira. Lippert.

Sard. Feriniani.

ALPHEUS and ARETHON.-Cameo. Head of the young Caligula. Azaincourt.

Cameo. Germanicus and Agrippina. This used to be shown at the Abbey St. Germain des Prés as the betrothal ring of the Virgin Mary: it was stolen with the other treasures in 1795 when the abbey was burnt down, and subsequently sold to the Russian General Hydrow.

ALPHEUS alone.-Ajax seated on a rock.

Dying Warrior. Cameo. Derring.

Sard.

Barbarian king in a biga. Cameo. Albani.

Venus and Cupid drawing a butterfly out of a well. Cameo.
Venuti.

AMMONIUS.-Head of Laughing Faun. Jacinth. British Museum.
AMPHOTERUS.-Head of youth with a fillet. Black Jasper.
Blacas. Supposed to be the head of Rhetemalces II.
AMARANTHUS.-Hercules driving away the Stymphalian birds.
Sard. Praun. (Not now in that Collection.)
ANTEROS.-Hercules carrying a bull. Sard. Devonshire.

A symbolic group. Sard. Lessing. (Merely the owner's
name.)

ANTIOCHUS.-Head of Pallas helmeted. Sard. Andreini.
Cupid bending his bow; in front a butterfly. Int. Sard.
Raspe.

Bonus Eventus. Red Jasper. M'Gowan.

APELLES.-Mask. Sard. Jablonowski.

APOLLODOTUS.-Bust of Pallas armed. Sard. Barbarini.

The Dying Orthryades, near him two warriors. Sard.
Lucatelli.

APOLLONIDES.-Cameo fragment of a cow lying down. Sold by
Stosch to the Duke of Devonshire for 1000 guineas.

Ox grazing. Amethyst. Raspe.

Cow lying down, as in the cameo.

Mask. Garnet. Berlin.

Sard. Hague.

APOLLONIUS.-Diana leaning against a pillar; a rock in the background. Amethyst. Naples.

Head of Mæcenas. Jacinth. Rhodes. AQUILAS. Venus bathing, Cupid by her. Raspe.

A horse. Stosch. The name spelt AKYIAOV. ARCHION.―APXIONOC on the robe of Venus Marina carried by a Triton. Sard. Hague.

ASPASIUS.-Head of Indian Bacchus. Red Jasper. Worsley. (A) copy is in the British Museum.)

Head of Junius Brutus. Raspe.

Head of Agrippina the Elder as Ceres, crowned with wheat ears. Beryl. Marlborough. Perhaps a work of Natter or Flavio Sirletti.

Head of Jupiter-fragment. Red Jasper. Florence.

Juno standing, at her feet a peacock.

Head of the City of Antioch, Worsley.

Red

Head of Pallas, in a highly ornamented helmet.
Jasper. Vienna. Many copies of this by Natter are
known with his signature upon them.

ASPUS.-Centaur carrying off a Bacchante. Amethyst. Thoms. ATHENION. Jupiter in his car throwing his bolts at two giants with serpent legs. Cameo. Naples. Antique copy of this. Webb.

Female head. Amethyst. Lippert.

AULUS.-Cupid nailing a butterfly to the trunk of a tree. Sard.
Thoms.

Cupid in fetters leaning on a hoe. Cameo. Barenth.
Cupid chained before a trophy. Sard. Carlisle.
Cupid holding a cornucopia. Calcedony. Raspe.
Head of the young Augustus. Sard. Lippert.
Horseman in armour.

Sard.

Florence.

Fore part of a horse. Garnet. Caylus.

Diana or Amazon. Sard. Buoncompagni.

Esculapius-bust: the name in a tablet. Sard. Strozzi. (His finest work, of which innumerable copies, some antique, are extant.

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Youthful head. Cameo. Collegio Romano.

Lion devouring a horse. Green Jasper. Meghan.

Mercury holding a ram's head. Sard. Raspe.

Head of Sextus Pompeius.

Head of Ptolemy Philopator or of Abdolonymus-in front a bull's head; behind, an old man with a staff. Sard. Bibliothèque, Paris.

Quadriga. Sard. Carlisle.

Venus seated on a rock balancing a stick, at which a little Cupid catches. Agate. Vettori, afterwards Jenkins the banker. (This name has beyond all others been made use of by modern artists. Natter confesses that he put it upon a copy of the Venus Vettori, of which he made a Danae.)

The following gems are also attributed to Aulus :-
Cupid holding a butterfly. Jacinth. The Hague.
Head of Ceres. Sard. Marquis de Drée.
Faun's head. Nicolo. Beck.

Head of Laocoon. Bibliothèque Royale.

Lion seizing a stag. Red Jasper. Lord Meghan.

Head of Mæcenas. Sard. Lord Greville.

Mercury carrying the infant Bacchus. Jacinth.

Hague.

Pan and Olympus. Sard of three layers. Beck.

The

Sacrifice to Venus: three females, a man, and a satyr, per

haps of the 16th century.

AXEOCHUS.-Faun playing the lyre, Cupid with a thyrsus, be

tween them an altar on which is a crescent.

Head of youthful Hercules. Sard. Cheroffini.

Stosch.

Perseus carrying the Medusa's head, has on his buckler this name AEEOX Stosch.

Bacchante. Paste. De Thoms.

Hercules, Mercury, Vulcan. Sard. Count Wackerbarth. BEISITALAS.-Cupid leaning on a spear, his legs crossed. Agate. Florence.

BOETHUS. Philoctetes reclining and driving off the flies from his wounded foot with a wing. Cameo. Milliotti. CAESILAX.-Minerva seated. Sardonyx. Constable.

CAIUS or GAIUS.-Head of a dog, perhaps of Sirius, full face; very deeply cut in a Siriam Garnet. Marlborough. Raspe calls this a work of Natter's.

Silenus seated playing on the double flute. Jacinth. Baron
Roger.

Bust of a girl, her finger on her lips. Sard. Same collection. CALLIMORPHUS.-Thalia standing: a mask in one hand, a thyrsus in the other. Sard. Florence.

CARPUS.-Bacchus and Ariadne on a lioness bound with wreaths.
Red Jasper. Florence.

Drunken faun dancing. Antique paste. Count de Thoms.
Heads of Hercules and Iole. Calcedony.

haps of the 16th century.

Florence, per

Perseus holding the Medusa's head and the harpè. Raspe.

CHAEREMON.-Conqueror in the games. Burnt Sard.

Lower Empire. Raspe.

CLASSICUS.-Serapis seated. Sard. Crozat.

Of the

CLEON. Apollo Citharedus, behind him a tripod and altar, in front a helmet. Gori, once belonged to Andreini.

CNEIUS or GNAEUS.-Head of Antinous. Raspe.

Victorious Athlete rubbing himself with oil, by his side a table, with a vase and palm branch. Beryl. Lord Dun

cannon.

Same subject. Nicolo. Bibliothèque Royale.

Young Athlete holding a strigil. Sard. Rendorp.

Head of Brutus. Sard. Cavaliere d'Azara.

Diomed naked, armed with sword and shield, the Pal-
ladium on a cippus by him: he is seated on the ground,
his mantle thrown over his arm. Sard. Denham.
Fragment of a horse-the head only.

Head of a goddess, sometimes called Sappho and Cleopatra.
Sard. Collegio Romano.

Head of the young Hercules. Beryl. Strozzi.

Head of Melpomene and a tragic mask. Turbie.

Head of Mercury. Abbé Pullini. Torino.

Head of Theseus, covered with a bull's hide. The name said to be added by Pichler. Rendorp, Amsterdam.

COENUS and QUINTUS; reading KOINOY and KOINTOY.

Adonis nude, holding a javelin and leaning on a cippus ;
a hound by him. Onyx. Prince Lichtenstein.
Head of Augustus. Raspe.

Faun celebrating the bacchanalia: vase in one hand, thyrsus
in the other, leopard's skin on arm. Nicolo. Extremely
delicate work; letters very faint. L. Natter.
Figure of Pythagoras. Sard. Salinis.

CRATERUS.

Diana of Ephesus. Sard. Stosch.

CRESCENS (KPHCKHC).-Harp-player. Sard. Poniatowsky. CRONIUS. Terpsichore-doubtful. Andreini. Figure standing, holding a lyre, leaning against a square cippus on which is a statue of Hercules; but the work appears too late for the age of Cronius.

Perseus. Sard. Devonshire.

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